[PHOTO] Vine against brick against street, Dupont Street

[BLOG] Some Sunday links

• Citizen Science Salon highlights Australian Michelle Neil, here.


• Ingrid Robeyns argues at Crooked Timber that the idea of punitive taxation of the superrich is hardly blasphemous.


• The Crux looks at the ongoing debate over the age of the rings of Saturn.


• io9 notes the sad death of Aron Eisenberg, the actor who brought the character of Nog to life on DS9.


• JSTOR Daily shares a debate on the ego and the id, eighty years later.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money notes how Mitch McConnell may have started the movement of Elizabeth Warren towards the US presidency.


• The Map Room Blog takes a look at the credible and consistent mapping of Star Wars' galaxy.


• The NYR Daily looks at Springsteen at 70 as a performer.


• Peter Rukavina shares a photo of a New England forest in fall.


• The Volokh Conspiracy notes a sticker that straddles the line between anti-Muslim sentiment and misogyny, trying to force people to choose.


• Window on Eurasia notes the strong anti-Russian sentiment prevailing in once-independent Tuva.

[URBAN NOTE] Five Toronto links: wealth, east-end, marijuana, 1930, ride-hailing

• blogTO notes that Toronto is getting richer even as the rest of Canada is getting poorer, though growth in Toronto is drriven by debt.


• Steve Munro looks at the ongoing reconstruction of the intersection of Kingston Road and Queen.


• blogTO looks at the reopening of an illegal cannabis store.


• Jamie Bradburn looks at the different ways mass media in 1930 Toronto shared election results.


• Nicholas Sanderson writes at Spacing about what other cities can learn from the experience of Toronto with ride-hailing apps.

[URBAN NOTE] Five city links: Hamilton, Kingston, Montréal, Saskatoon, Washington D.C.

• Hamilton, Ontario, now has a wall open to public street art. Global News reports.


• An early immigrant to Kingston, Ontario, explains what it was like to move to this eastern Ontario hub. Global News reports.


• MTL Blog notes that Montréal mayor has cancelled the construction of a condo tower because it was not including social housing.


• A museum exhibit in Saskatoon is offering free HIV testing and blood donation services in the fight against stigma. Global News reports.


• Ellen Mauro at CBC explains to readers the movement to make Washington D.C. into the 51st American state.

[URBAN NOTE] Five notes about cities: parks, productivity, suburbs, borders, libraries

• CityLab looks at a new study examining the relationship between gentrification and new city parks.


• Guardian Cities looks at the hardest-working cities in the world, and wonders if that duration of work is a good idea.


• The Conversation looks at how population growth in Canada is increasingly concentrated in car-dependent suburbs.


• VICE looks at how arbitrary municipal borders in built-up areas can have nasty effects on the lives of people caught up by them.


• Rabble reports on how Canadian libraries are handling the opioid crisis.